WILDLIFE tourism’s popularity have surged in recent years as this captivating industry is the sole one that allows travellers an opportunity to connect and immerse themselves in mother nature while experiencing wonders of the animal kingdom getting an awe-inspiring and educational experience.
2024 marks an extraordinary 20-year milestone for the Satpuda Landscape Tiger Partnership (SLTP), a collective of organisations founded by Born Free, working to protect the tigers of India’s Satpuda Landscape.
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• New results reveal that many of Africa’s remaining lions live within small, fragmented populations at risk of disappearing.
• The researchers developed a new framework which integrates ecological and socio-political risk factors to better understand the fragility of these populations.
• The analysis could provide a guide for conservationists, policy makers, and investors to allocate resources most effectively towards saving Africa’s lions.
• For the first time, a group of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick.
• The analysis provides a fascinating insight into the diversity of plant species cultivated at that time and place, and could open the way to similar studies on clay material from other sites and time periods.
• The results are published today in Nature Scientific Reports.